Hygiene
Since 2008, Aura Cúc has been a sanitation and hygiene education officer, promoting healthy habits in schools and communities. In a conversation with her, we dove into the deep conenction between WASH and education.
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Meet Lennie, a passionate young woman whose journey with Water For People began in 2015, when she was only 11 years old. That was the year Water For People built bathrooms, handwashing facilities, and menstrual hygiene management units to support students’ sanitation and hygiene needs at Lennie’s school, Chilomoni Primary.
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For Prisca, hygiene has changed everything. A mother of five, Pricsa lives in the Misanjo village in southern Malawi. She introduces herself with a huge smile. She is proud of her role in the community and the story she has to tell.
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Everyone at this primary school in West Bengal, India knows that a successful student is a healthy student.
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Ten girls are keeping hundreds of girls in school in India.
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Angel, Elizabeth, and Sylvia are a triple force for hygiene promotion at their school in Blantyre, Malawi. The girls are triplets, and they’re all in the school sanitation club. “Water is important because it helps us keep our bodies healthy,”
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Combine baking soda, oil, and extract from a local Malawian tree, and it equals better hygiene for an entire community.
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The kindergarten in the picturesque town of Nueva Granada, Honduras has reliable water and sanitation services. It wasn’t always this way at the school, shares Dora Ramos, the school’s director.
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The community of Pachoj in Guatemala is 15 miles from the nearest town and challenging to get to – in the rainy season the trek to this tiny town can include more than a mile of walking along muddy roads that often become unpassable for cars. Because access to the town is so difficult, Pachoj lacks basic services like drinking water, sanitation, and electricity.
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Simon’s exuberant smile gives away his passion for his task at hand: improve the health of his village through better hygiene and sanitation.
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